Hispanophone literature

The Optic Nerve

by María Gainza & Thomas Bunstead

Tentacle

by Rita Indiana & Achy Obejas

Plucked from her life on the streets of post-apocalyptic Santo Domingo, young maid Acilde Figueroa finds herself at the heart of a Santería prophecy: only she can travel back in time and save the ocean –...

The Naked Woman

by Armonía Somers, Kit Maude & Elena Chavez Goycochea

When The Naked Woman was originally published in 1950, critics doubted a woman writer could be responsible for its shocking erotic content. Fantastic themes are juxtaposed with brutal depictions of misogyny...

The Labyrinth of the Spirits

The Cemetery of Forgotten Books #4

by Carlos Ruiz Zafon

One of O: The Oprah Magazine's 15 Favorite Books of 2018

The internationally acclaimed, New York Times bestselling author returns to the magnificent universe he constructed in his bestselling novels The Shadow...

The Story of H

by Marina Perezagua

From an audacious new talent, The Story of H describes a searing quest by a Japanese woman and an American soldier to find a girl who goes missing in the aftermath of Hiroshima, a journey that spans the globe...

People in the Room

by Norah Lange & Charlotte Whittle

A young woman in Buenos Aires spies three women in the house opposite her family’s home. Intrigued, she begins to watch them. She imagines them as accomplices to an unknown crime, as troubled spinsters contemplating...

Nevada Days

by Bernardo Atxaga

A seductive, unclassifiable blend of autobiography and fiction set in Reno, from the preeminent Basque author

Nine months as a writer in residence can prove unnerving for anyone. For Bernardo Atxaga, newly arrived...

Comemadre

2018 National Book Awards Longlist for Translated Literature #3

by Roque Larraquy & Heather Cleary

Comemadre is a natural fit for our Latin American translation list—funny, oddball, and dark. It came to us recommended by Valeria Luiselli and Daniel Saldaña París and is our first collaboration with translator...

Brother in Ice

by Alicia Kopf & Mara Faye Lethem

‘She thought that it was precisely when things get uncomfortable or can’t be shown that something interesting comes to light. That is the point of no return, the point that must be reached, the point you...

Bottom of the Sky

by Rodrigo Fresán & Will Vanderhyden

At its core, The Bottom of the Sky is a novel about two young boys in love with other planets and a disturbingly beautiful girl. An homage to the history of American science fiction, it’s also about the Gulf...

Tomb Song

by Julián Herbert

An incandescent new voice from Mexico, for readers of Ben Lerner and Rachel Cusk

Sitting at the bedside of his mother as she is dying from leukemia in a hospital in northern Mexico, the narrator of Tomb Song...

The Neighborhood

by Mario Vargas Llosa & Edith Grossman

A thrilling tale of desire and Peruvian corruption swirls around a scandalous exposé that leads to murder

From the Nobel Laureate comes a politically charged detective novel weaving through the underbelly of...

The Right Intention

by Andrés Barba & Lisa Dillman

An aging gay man fixates on the age difference between him and his younger lover. A runner threatens to ruin his marriage training for a marathon. A high school girl starves herself in an attempt to disappear....

Lessons for a Child Who Arrives Late

by Carlos Yushimito & Valerie Miles

A tin man ponders the mysteries of death as a heart starts to take charge of his limbs, while in a place not so far away a boy tries to play the piano like Margarita, the teacher’s cruel and beautiful niece....

We Are The End

by Gonzalo García

‘A unique and breathtaking talent.’ Scarlett Thomas

“Gonzalo Garcia is so talented: a new deep and hilarious literary voice.” Dorthe Nors

Tomás' girlfriend has left him. She has, in fact, fled to Antarctica,...

Return to the Dark Valley

by Santiago Gamboa & Howard Curtis

A kaleidoscopic, cosmopolitan novel infused with inky noir.

Santiago Gamboa is one of Colombia's most exciting writers. In the manner of Roberto Bolano, Gamboa infuses his kaleidoscopic, cosmopolitan stories...

Heavens on Earth

by Carmen Boullosa & Shelby Vincent

• Lives in New York, teaches at City College of New York, very active in the New York literary scene

•Won the Xavier Villaurrutia Prize, the most prestigious prize given for a single novel in Mexico, for...

Red, Yellow and Green

by Alejandro Saravia & María José Giménez

In Montreal, Alfredo struggles with his memories of being ordered to commit an atrocity by the Bolivian army. Despising his nation as an oppressive sham, he falls for a woman with no nation—a Kurdish freedom-fighter...

The Ship of Fools

by Cristina Peri Rossi & Psiche Hughes

The Ship of Fools has established Cristina Peri Rossi, author of a dozen other books of poetry and prose, as a leading writer in Europe and Latin America. This is her most important work in English and is recognized...

Medical Autobiography

by Damián Tabarovsky & Emily Davis

Each time protagonist Dami comes up with another one of his “great ideas,” he is instantly thwarted by his own body, overcome time and again by various, almost comical, ailments. Throughout the ups and downs...